As We Watch Episode 4

It is very possible the show is combining Dany and Val to form a love interest for Jon. However, I am not buying what they are selling, at this point anyway. Jon and Dany's interactions feel rather contrived to me.

Yes, there was a hard and sharp part of book Val, that Jon doesn't seem to shy from, but I am not sure if that equates to show Dany. Still, how Jon views her, might depend on Dany's actions after this battle with the Lannister's.

At this point, I see her actions as brutally torching those men, when they were clearly going to lose to the Dothraki, whether she had a dragon or not. And she did not give those men a chance before the battle to bend the knee (which show Dany is fooking obsessed with) and instead ambushed them, and then she burnt a large amount of the food stores. If I remember correctly, Aegon I gave his enemies a chance to support him, and if they failed, then he took action, whereas Dany react's first and attempts to smooth things over later. I would think Jon would think that behavior was brutal and stupid. But I guess we will have to see how the show writes her out of this corner.

I certainly agree that there seems to be much "forced idiocy" in the plot this season, and last.

I sure hope there are some consequences that relate to what I assume will be a bad ending for Dickon Tarly, through Jon looking through Sam's eyes, a brother who lost a brother in a horrible way, not unlike how Sam might have viewed Robb's death. Something that makes Jon see Dany as something besides "I think she has a good heart" ...

Or, nothing might come of it, as you stated. It is hard to say with the show.

I thought that the show did a fabulous job of showing the devastation that Dany caused (or maybe we need to give the credit to Nikolaj, who has been spot on this season), but I am surprised to read that so many people think Dany's behavior was justified because she was fighting soldiers. But what she did was rather like bringing a Gatling gun to a knife fight!